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  1. Irreplaceable
    Irreplaceable
    Learn the craft of working with AI, and your value goes up, not away.
    Duncan McTavish

    Written for people who never asked to become AI users and now are. Not a tour of the technology, but a practical guide to working with it well — the habits that make good results repeatable, and the judgement to know when to check.

  2. Eternal Spring
    Eternal Spring
    Our Guide to Mexico City (2026)
    Paul Thurrott and Stephanie Thurrott

    Eternal Spring: Our Guide to Mexico City is like a Rick Steves guidebook for Mexico City ... that in many ways is nothing like a Rick Steves guidebook for Mexico City

  3. The Engineering Protocol Stack
    The Engineering Protocol Stack
    A Layered Model for Engineering Leadership
    Guillem Fernandez

    As an engineer you are valued most of the time by your technical skills. The time you have to use those technical skills is limited. You can find many books about increasing productivity, this is not one of them. Booster skills is about doing what you do more efficiently and getting the best output of what you already know how to do.

  4. The Forces of Chess
    The Forces of Chess
    Reach, Force, and Change: A New Framework for Understanding Chess
    Abdessamad Regragui

    (For readers who want the essence)The entire framework reduces to one idea: chess is a system of reachable relations undergoing change. Everything begins with Reach: what can relate to what? Then comes Occupancy: who or what is actually there? Reach interacting with Occupancy creates Function — a real role in this position, not just an abstract capability — and from that role comes Force: the way the relation acts.Push · Pull · Redirect · Release · Tension · BlockThese are not six kinds of moves. They are six ways of describing what is happening in a position. Tense tells us whether a force is acting now or belongs to a possible future. The interaction of forces produces a Resultant: what the position's forces actually produce. That produces Change: what is different afterward. The new position creates new reaches, and the cycle begins again.REACH → OCCUPANCY → FORCE → TENSE → RESULTANT → CHANGE → REACHAbove this mechanical cycle is Purpose, which answers: what change am I trying to obtain? ReachWhat can relate?Occupancy Who/what is there?ForceHow does the relation act?TenseWhen does it matter?ResultantWhat does the interaction produce?ChangeWhat is different afterward?PurposeWhich possible change do I want?This is the backbone of the entire book. Everything else — attacks, threats, captures, checks, forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, deflections, overloads, sacrifices, and strategic plans — can be understood as higher-level configurations of these underlying relations. The framework is not meant to replace chess terminology. It is meant to expose the common structure underneath it.

  5. Product Development in AI Era
    Product Development in AI Era
    Building Adaptive Hardware Products in the Age of AI Transformation
    Maarit Laanti

    AI doesn't fix a broken product development process — it amplifies whatever process you give it. Drawing on two decades of hardware leadership, this book is a field guide to making that amplification work in your favor, not against you.

  6. Kaue's Way Of Life
    Kaue's Way Of Life
    Kaue Silveira

    Health, Wealth, Love, Meaning!

  7. Your Power of POSITIVE THINKING
    Your Power of POSITIVE THINKING
    Level-Up your thinking again... Get back onto the Positive Psychology Train. Simply Jump Onboard
    Glenn-Philip Sinclair

    How To Level Up In Life Simply By Changing The Way You Think Discover The Proven & Powerful Mindset Secrets That Highly-Successful People use To Dominate Every Area of Their Life...

  8. The Most Useless Book
    The Most Useless Book
    Read At Your Own Risk. Possible Side-Effect: Actual Life Changes.
    Dmitri Sarle

    If you read the title and you are still curious to read a little more about this book, you are someone I would love to have a dialogue with. This book is a paradoxical, playful, and at times humorous exploration of meaning - created as a form of art. There is no guarantee that this book will help you with anything, but it might.

  9. 心盲症 (简体中文版)
    心盲症 (简体中文版)
    关于无的文章
    Peter Armstrong and TranslateAI

    这本小书是一篇关于Aphantasia的随笔。您可以免费阅读,可以点击“Free To Read Online”按钮在您的网页浏览器中阅读,或者将这本书加入购物车以下载并以PDF和EPUB格式阅读。如果您喜欢这篇随笔,请考虑购买付费版 :)

  10. Aphantasia (Édition Française)
    Aphantasia (Édition Française)
    Un essai sur rien
    Peter Armstrong and TranslateAI

    Ce court livre est un essai sur l'Aphantasia. Vous pouvez le lire gratuitement, soit en cliquant sur le bouton Lire gratuitement en ligne pour le lire dans votre navigateur web, soit en ajoutant le livre à votre panier pour le télécharger et le lire en PDF et EPUB. Si vous appréciez l'essai, veuillez envisager d'acheter une copie payante :)

  11. Sony a7S III Exposure Cheat Sheets

    Cheat sheets for zebra clipping values, base ISOs for different picture profiles, usable dynamic ranges for different gammas, S-Log3 exposure guidelines, and S-Cinetone exposure guidelines. Print them and throw them in your camera bag, download the PDF to your phone, or just take photos of the cheat sheets and always have them on your phone.

  12. Manual de estilos de liderazgo
    Manual de estilos de liderazgo
    Una introducción práctica para nuevos líder
    Dario Varona

    Conocer distintos estilos de liderazgo no sirve para etiquetar personas, sino para ampliar tus opciones como líder. Este libro te propone entender cómo adaptar tu forma de conducir según las personas, la situación y las necesidades del equipo.

  13. Tremenda turra
    Tremenda turra
    Ensayos sobre la Antigüedad para pensar el presente
    Gonzalo Ayuso

    ¿Qué pueden decirnos una democracia en crisis, una guerra civil en Corcira, las mujeres y diosas de la mitología griega, el colapso de la Edad del Bronce o la tragedia sobre nuestro presente? Tremenda turra recorre episodios, mitos y textos de la Antigüedad para descubrir que, aunque el mundo haya cambiado mucho, algunas preguntas siguen resultando incómodamente familiares.

  14. The complete guide to commercial cucumber farming

    Turn Cucumber Farming Into a Profitable Agribusiness Cucumber farming can be more than just growing vegetables—it can become a profitable business when you understand how to plan, plant, manage, harvest, and market your crop effectively. The Complete Guide to Commercial Cucumber Farming gives you practical knowledge for starting and managing a successful cucumber farm, from site preparation and seed selection to fertilizer application, pest and disease management, harvesting, budgeting, and profitability. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced farmer, this guide will help you understand what it takes to grow cucumbers successfully and approach farming with a business mindset.

  15. 20 NCAA Basketball Rules That Need To Be Added

    College basketball stands at a breaking point. This book lays out a complete blueprint for transformational change with 20 purposeful rules.